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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
Dave Barry
Age
Sex
Characteristics
Eye
Security
Determines
Color
Information
Social
Your
Unique
Social Security
Biological
Number
But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
David Herbert Donald
Think
Increase
Characteristics
Having
Stems
Said
Still
Lincoln
Lot
Account
Personal
Which
Popularity
People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.
David Maraniss
Good
Great
You
People
Try
President
Say
Those
Characteristics
Bad
Would
Had
He
Major
Always
Were
Been
His
Clinton
Done
Certain
Separate
Certain Things
Things
Part of an actor's job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
David Zayas
Work
Director
Try
Job
Characteristics
Adjust
Tries
He
Part
Opinion
Understand
How
In My Opinion
Actor
When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.
Dick Costolo
Think
Twitter
Those
Scale
Characteristics
Distributed
About
Only
Make
Conversational
Public
Unique
Platform
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
Edward de Bono
Mind
Humor
Characteristics
Significant
More
Fact
Cheap
Most
Very
Than
Human
Commodity
In Fact
Far
Human Mind
Reason
Actually
I would ask to tweak stuff during the action, because I thought Elektra would more likely express herself with a slap, for example. I wanted to keep the characteristics of my character even during the fights and express the violence as she would do it, not like somebody else would.
Elodie Yung
Character
Thought
Somebody
Example
Action
Else
Herself
Characteristics
Would
More
Stuff
Like
For Example
Likely
She
Because
Wanted
Ask
Fights
Tweak
Even
Express
Elektra
Keep
Slap
Violence
Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
Francisco Goya
Nature
Together
Single
Painting
Circumstances
Characteristics
Poetry
Like
Most
Occur
Being
Different
Which
Persons
Chooses
Many
Universal
Brings
Imaginary
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.
Franz Boas
Man
Men
Diversity
Considered
Characteristics
Classes
Mental
Area
Physiological
Individual
Geographical
Discuss
Traits
Different
Interested
Social
Groups
Found
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
Gabrielle Zevin
Me
You
People
Somebody
Think
Characteristics
Physical
More
Like
Read
Always
Question
Lot
Informative
Ask
Much
Describing
Found
Things
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail Sheehy
Courage
Women
Ambition
Intimate
Characteristics
Generally
Like
Female
Integrate
Male
Being
Commonly
Capacity
Found
Associated
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
Gary L. Francione
Characteristics
Evolution
Mental
Absent
Proposition
Theory
Wholly
Humans
Inconsistent
Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
George Akerlof
Market
Characteristics
Rarely
Constructed
Economic
Institutions
Prior
Models
Unique
Capture
Specific
Early
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
George William Russell
Truth
Character
Heart
Hate
Result
Enemies
Hatred
Own
Secret
Say
Those
Characteristics
Enter
Open
Make
Passionate
Intensity
Nations
Door
Interchange
Conflicts
Which
Places
Might
Themselves
Create
Who
Hence
Imagine
I would say that my idea of style and my taste are the same as when I began: They express my deep appreciation of all that is simple and linear... I always want to keep up with the times but without altering the essential characteristics of my philosophy.
Giorgio Armani
Appreciation
Simple
Style
Philosophy
Say
Characteristics
Would
Idea
Altering
Without
Always
Linear
Began
Up
Times
Taste
Same
Essential
Want
Deep
Express
Keep
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Harry Seidler
War
Great
Technology
Architecture
World
Made
Strides
Earthquake
Characteristics
Only
Allowing
Advanced
Advanced Technology
Tall
Buildings
Traditional
Were
Modern
After
Japanese
Infusing
Expressing
Resistant
World War
World War II
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes.
Heidi Hammel
Hope
Courage
Creativity
Characteristics
Seeds
Civilization
Arise
Protagonist
Curiosity
Human
Ashes
Dystopia
Sparks
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'
Helen Rowland
Man
Will
Thought
Become
Own
Faults
Characteristics
Charming
He
Cherish
His
Begin
Personal
Accustomed
Little
Them
The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.
Henry Lawson
Future
History
Country
State
Despite
Characteristics
Promise
Born
More
Advance
Singularity
Than
Taught
Children
Interest
Meanest
Bred
Europe
A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
Hesketh Pearson
Character
Man
Age
Youth
Old
Old Age
Changes
Circumstances
Characteristics
Out
Superficial
Never
Observer
Obvious
Been
Happens
Which
Radically
Bring
I think one of the studio's characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.
Hidetaka Miyazaki
Beautiful
Think
Characteristics
Worthwhile
Embrace
Perceive
Studio
Feel
Ideals
Make
Place
Interesting
Games
Cool
Wholeheartedly
Foundation
If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.
Howard Jacobson
Socialism
Church
Devil
Sentiment
Christian
Other
Characteristics
He
Devilish
His
Itself
Being
Places
Them
Express
Found
Early
Jew
Medieval
We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
Jack Horner
You
Our
Ancestors
Those
Characteristics
Ancient
Out
Carry
Could
Genes
Come
How
Turn
Turned
Us
Used
Figure
Actually
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
James Fenton
Today
Art
Freedom
Age
First
Sense
Other
Our
Characteristics
Vanity
Structure
Poets
Developing
Between
French
Idiom
Verbal
Line
Hand
Efforts
Any
Form
Rhythm
Forms
Choice
Fundamental
Honestly, after five, six months, I thought it was unlikely I'd be here long: my characteristics seemed to go against everything Barcelona stood for.
Javier Mascherano
Thought
Long
Honestly
Everything
Unlikely
Months
Characteristics
Seemed
Go
Five
Stood
Six
After
Against
Barcelona
Here
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau
Regret
Nothing
Strangers
Live
Our
Characteristics
Dream
Habits
Surprises
Off
Friends
Cut
Us
Agree
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